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When You Are Engulfed in Flames

by Sedaris David

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In a Sunburned Country

by Bill Bryson

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Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories

by Angela Carter

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“I am not all she devil. A she devil has no memory of the past - she is born afresh every morning. She deals with the feelings of today, not yesterday, and she is free. There is a little bit of me left, still woman.”
― Fay Weldon, The Life and Loves of a She Devil

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“Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself. It wants the whole boat to itself. It goes through the hamper, and gives a cheesy flavour to everything else there.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

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“He knew he had changed because when presently he took confession from a woman who had been using contraceptives and whose husband had left her, he did not equate the sin with the consequence.”
― Fay Weldon, The Life and Loves of a She Devil

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“Peel away the wife, the mother, find the woman within, and there the she devil is.”
― Fay Weldon, The Life and Loves of a She Devil

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“People say you should only write what you know. But you only write what you know because you are too fucking stupid to make anything up.”
― Martin McDonagh

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